do any of you actually believe in Karma & Reincarnation? (Page 5 of 6)

I read an interesting thread on abovetopsecret by John Lear. He says Whitley Schreiber told him whatever you do, DON'T go into the light. Lear says he doesn't intend to follow that suggestion, that earth is a school we can't leave until we "graduate", and that our souls are recycled by some type of "soul-catcher" located on the moon.

If we can trust in the ultimate safety of our Being -- who we are, where we are, what we're doing, and that it's all OK, maybe better than OK, that it is in fact, perfect...that does seem to be the point of view that best allows us to function as an aspect of who we truly are.

I've been thinking about this for the last couple days, about how certain people just have that channel open between their human selves and their higher selves. They know what the rest of us have to work to discover. Recognizing that open channel when it comes to us in the form of another person can be a key to finding it in ourselves, and much of the time the genuine articles slip right past us while we're paying more attention to whoever's talking about what they heard someone else talking about.
I believe in what you're saying about the collective awakening. I think we have trouble seeing it because we're really inside of it looking out. It's so easy to forget that it's Now, not maybe, or later that it happens.

I didn't think it was so much about being afraid, but there are many facets to the fear frequency. You've mentioned fear several times here, and I'm going to take that to heart...because I'm afraid you may be right. :>)

This is funny. I've been in a work situation where I've been interacting with "hillbillies" for the last couple months (though not rich hillbillies, just regular working class guys). I have a very difficult time not being authentic, so I have to be much better than I'm used to about not running my mouth so much. I believe I understand what you mean about holding the higher frequency. It's challenging to find ways of getting past the energy they've been programmed to project as a means of dealing with their environmental and social circumstances. Usually I find that behind that aggressive (and kind of barbaric) energetic onslaught, they're built on the same patterns as I am.
One day I started paying attention to the pop/country music thats always on there and how almost every song is about the kinds of feelings and emotions those guys pretend they don't have. That was a clue.

I've been looking at what I've attracted lately, but it's been kind of like not being able to look away at the scene of a car crash.
Das Moose, I really appreciate all you've shared and your kind words. You're very generous and it's empowering in a way that I haven't felt in quite some time. It's nice to talk to someone who's so committed to the path of the heart.
I look forward to hearing about your experiences whenever you have the time to share them.

To the contrary, I find you very brave, fearless even.  Fear is just something on my mind lately.

I imagine the difference between our respective hillbillies is very subtle; additional chrome on the pick up trucks maybe?… imported chewing tobacco?:) or the phrase, “I’m going to go whittle some, and check my stocks”  I kid… because it makes me feel superior. But seriously I experienced almost the exact situation and realization around the music at work a couple of days ago. Awesome that you sited that as an example, it pieced it together for me.  It’s so true that behind the exo-skeleton of abrasiveness and aggression are parts that long and yearn for deeper connection, but are smothered and limited by programming and fear.  I’ve also come to that conclusion that they are built on the same patterns as me; they’re holding exaggerated parts of me to work with, which is by no means a simple task, laughs, and I value them for wearing it.  I have found that as I have observed my sponsoring energy and shifted within, this creates an opportunity for them to reflect the new pattern.  This can be very freeing, however there is still the other levels like social consciousness, that can draw them back into the old patterns. The choice points can be a template of lucidity in an otherwise chaotic nightmare.  We can’t be attached to an outcome we can only be genuine when we share our own process.

Very funny and true for me too. It helps to share. Thanks. You helped me see something I have been missing. Speaking of car crashes, I eventually hope to find the time to tune in properly and write some karma and reincarnation stories.

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Something I forgot to mention several posts back when I was talking about the Oregon trail possibility and my trip out to Astoria in January 2002- the next morning after that trip, a Sunday, I woke up in my brother's apartment where I was crashing at the time and sat up in my air mattress and noticed something on the floor at the end of the mattress.  I reached over and picked it up, realizing it was a map.  One of those National Geographic maps.  I unfolded it and realized.....it was a map showing all the pioneer trails out west, and the Oregon trail.  Different routes were noted in different colors, and there were these historical bit and blurbs of insight on the sides of the map.  It was dated July 2000 I believe. So from about 6 months earlier, a relatively recent issue.  But there were no National Geographics in the apartment.  I certainly didn't have any and either did my brother.  The apartment was very tiny, it would have been hard to miss.

Feeling like   I later asked my brother - more like demanded in an alarmed "!!!!" way - where this came from.  He looked at me frowning and puzzled, slightly annoyed at being bothered and had no idea.  He kept insisting he had no idea where it came from, and meanwhile I was just at the amazing "coincidence" of it all.  REALLY weird.  Portland was a weird time in general with strange reality stuff going on, and lots of conspiracies and even a UFO sighting one night apparently, so in a way it doesn't surprise me.  But still, even that boggled my mind a bit.  The odds are astronomical that a National Geographic map specifically pertaining to the Oregon trail would spontaneously appear at the end of my bed the next morning after I drove west on Route 30 - which literally lies on top of the old Oregon trail- out to Astoria where I stopped and perused through the historical society museum, looking with fascinated interested at all their pioneer/Oregon Trail relics.  So much so that I don't even question the nature of this incident, I just know it was artificially constructed by something else.   By who though, and for what purpose, I'll never know.

Thanks!
I would like to read that PDF, this is a very complicate/complex thing to
understand well.

a rainbow is really a circle. 
THE CENTER OF THE rainbow is home.

Yes ... 

             Part of my journey required that i discovered my previous incarnation - so i kind of knew where i was up to in evolutionary terms and determine what my "mission" was - to help out humanity somehow.
             
             As a youngster i was a collector of crystals and also spent time stargazing and things started to fall into place when i consciously embarked on my path - begining with exploring all things Magical/mystical and culminating in discovering my past life as an ET. I'm still researching and pulling my story together, but have most of the information and just really need to start to write it down.

I read this last-night and thought i would type it out to see what you feel about it. Of course i'm not claiming this as gospel ; but feel there's some interesting ideas and concepts ...

                                                              Excerpt from "Starlight Elixirs" by Michael Smulkis and Fred Rubenfeld.

             This galaxy's influence enhances the ability to understand the long-term purpose of humanity's evolution.This includes the ability to recall one's past lives as different life forms, such as dinosaurs. In some cases these remembered lives are extraterrestrial.
       
             The energy of Andromeda primarily relates to the understanding of the early incarnations of humanity as the Himalaya mountains. These lives are important aspects of one's being. The Himalayas exist as the Rock of Gibralter for understanding the influence of mountains on human awareness. The Himalayas have existed in so many different ways for very long periods of time, and indeed were the first little pokings up out of the sea of hills and eventually islands and mountains in the early phases of Earth history before humanity ever appeared in any form and animal life was unknown. In this way they are the first to bring some sense of separation or difference between the land and sea, and were the ideal repository of consciousness, though in a primative form, of humanity as a group. Their great height at the current time is related to humanity's need to understand it's own history. For people to understand themselves, they must look with symbolism and awakening in their consciousness to whom they have been. Because of their height, people will be attracted to them and learn about them, and in this way learn about themselves. It is partly to do with Elohim influence that these mountains symbolize so much spiritually for humanity.

             Working with the energy of Andromeda can also enhance the ability to perceive the overall picture. The understanding that an individual may fit into a larger cosmic scheme is brought into greater awareness and consciousness. This can help one feel a part of the cosmos and a part of universal thought and understanding.

             Andromeda's energy has the ability to bring the physical body into a state of balance and alignment with oneself and others, which may result in an internal state of balance. Awareness of the love principle contributing to the soul's evolution, and ultimately to God's evolution, is brought into consciousness with this energy. This results in most of the things we have mentioned above.

             The energy of this galaxy can be attuned to directly by individuals when they are not involved in the thinking process, as when they are receiving this light through dance, music, through meditation, movement or even sleep.

             A number of individuals from Earth have had a chance to visit Andromeda. In some ways Andromeda is a mirror of many aspects of the Milky Way Galaxy. Andromeda's central energy in some ways is a mate to the energy located in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Because of this innate affiliation, certain capacities that might be ascribed to yin and yang exist at a galactic level. Many individuals who have had difficulties in understanding what it is to exist on Earth or even in other civilisations associated with the Milky Way have had direct past-life experiences within the Andromeda system. Individuals who have some attunement to Andromeda, because they have seen a picture of it or perhaps have gazed upon it in the heavens at night, will do well with this elixir and may find past memories of long journeys to other places, other times, and other people.

             Much schooling of individuals to some understanding of what it means to be involved in the Milky Way system has taken place in the Andromeda system. But very few individuals are natives of that place, but rather they have come here to experience Earth and retain some memories of Andromeda because at times, when the going was very tough here, they could have a shifted perspective, a new way of working with things by a breif visit or a fairly brief lifetime somewhere in the Andromeda system. Because it is a system just like the Milky Way, there are many capacities there, many things that go on, many planets, and several of these mirror Earths development on some levels. But there is in general with such planets some inability to welcome great radical change, as change as such has been destructive enough in that place. So therefore it is a little different; it is somewhat associated with periods of relative inactivity, peace, a feeling within oneself of a gathering rather than of an expression.